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Lab Safety Tip Archive
This safety tip is sponsored by Tecniplast and taken from The Laboratory Safety Institute Guidelines.
Everyone likes to receive a reward for good performance. It can be a merit raise, a promotion, or praise. Good performance deserves to be acknowledged and rewarded. Safety performance is no different. When it's done right, it should be recognized.
Here are some ideas to recognize good safety performance:
- If you do staff evaluations, make safety one of the written criteria.
- Let staff members with good safety performance get recognized and appreciated in ways that others will see and want to be part of.
- Make sure the people who get promoted are good safety performers. If you don’t, you may be giving a very mixed signal.
- Post a safety goal and keep visible track of the progress. For example, you can state, “our goal is to have an accident-free month.” When the goal is met, acknowledge it by holding a special event to celebrate your success.
A formal recognition plan or program can help promote safety. How do you reward good safety performance in your lab?
Dr. James A. Kaufman is the founder and president of The Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI) www.labsafety.org – an international, non-profit center for safety in science and science education. LSI provides workshops, seminars, onsite training programs, lab safety program development consultations, facilities inspections and regulatory compliance assistance. Contact LSI with all your lab safety questions: 800-647-1977 or info@labsafety.org.
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